Jag har också lagt in Bertil Lööfs mailtexter, det ger en liten förklaring hur Bertil blev en legend i USA nästan 40 år efter besöket.
Klicka på denna länk:The whole story så kommer Du till en pdf-fil som förutom ger Dig en engelsk läsövning ger den Dig också The whole story om legenden Bertil Lööf.
Bild nr 1 på "Bertil Lööf" och bild nr 2.
----- Original Message -----
From: Dominick
Pugliese
Sent: Sunday, August 07, 2011 3:53 AM
Subject: Hälsningar från USA!
Dear
Mr. Lööf,
Talar
du engelska? I hope so, as I do not speak Swedish! I am
writing you from Washington, DC. If I have the correct
Bertil Lööf, then you were a member of the 1972 Swedish Military Team of
Orienteering that set up the orienteering course in Prince William's Forest
Park in Virginia. I frequently use that course, and if you are not too
busy I would truly appreciate the opportunity to ask you some questions about
your experience setting the course up.
Thank
you for your time! I look forward to hearing from you.
Uppriktigt,
Dominick
Pugliese
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Original Message -----
From: Dominick
Pugliese
To: Bertil Löv
Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2011 6:37 AM
Subject: Re: Hälsningar från USA!
Well
Mr. Lööf, it is a pleasure to meet you!
I have been meaning to contact you
for a while, so it is wonderful to hear back. Since 2007, I have worked as an
instructor at a summer camp in Maryland, as part of its Leaders in Training
(LIT) program. Every week in the summer we take a group of about 12
teenagers to Prince William's Forest Park to teach them outdoor survival skills
and leadership principles. On the second day of the course, we teach them
orienteering and lead them through several posts. On the third day, we
send them out in groups of 3-4 to orienteer a different course by themselves.
The orienteering is an integral part of our curriculum, and is typically a
highlight for the kids.
Over the past few years the kids
have built up quite a mythology around the 1972 Swedish Military Team of
Orienteering (you may recall that all your names are listed on the map).
I imagine this is somewhat strange to hear, but you your fellow team
members have become something like superheroes to the kids at our camp.
They have written songs, stories, and even poems about you and the team,
and you have become a big source of inspiration and identity for them.
I asked several of my friends how
they would react if someone from another country told them that they had become
a legend to a group of people they had never met, and none of them had an
answer. I can only say that it is as strange for me to be talking to the
real Bertil Lööf as it must be for you to learn this.
In short, I am very excited to
actually meet you. I would love to learn as much about what actually
happened in 1972 and your actual life, and, if you are interested, I would love
to share with you some more details of the Bertil Lööf legend that exists
at our camp.
Again, I imagine this must be quite
strange to hear, but - provided you would like to hear it - I am eager to tell
you the whole story.
-Nick Pugliese
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